Archive for the tag "levenger"

• Oh dear, my rss feed is saying I’m posting everything on December 31 1969. WTF? #
• Thinking I can’t use TwitterTools, at least not to pull in RSS and create new posts automatically. Seems to be screwing up dates and GUIDs. #
• Search and Replace in WordPress MySQL Database (via Lorelle on WordPress)
• I got my Circa notebook and I love it! I noticed a broken tooth on the inner plastic cover thingy; they’re graciously sending me a new one. #
• I’m done moving into my note-bwallet! Amanda (@swatymyers) would understand the satisfaction. I’ll be using this every day, all the time. #
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• Unfollowing somebody for being a hater. #
• Lazy Rock Star? Gibson Creates Self-Tuning Guitar
• Dunno if I like mixing twitters in with my blog posts. Too awkward-looking. Want to fix that, and also mix in Flickr/Reader/delicious feeds. #
•  Shot after breakfast at the Royal Café
• Getting ready to go see the Invisible Cities at the Du Nord #
• Faced with an all-consuming desire to get my paws on that box from Levenger. Should be later this week. #
•  Bay Bridge tunnel at Yerba Buena Island
  
• The Invisible Cities at Café du Nord
  

• Ugh. htaccess and mod_rewrite are straining my brain something awful. I need to get better at regex, I shoulda had that down cold years ago. #
• It may be dawning on me that the Twitter plugin I’m using is generating funky dates. Need to roll my own, but that’s a huge can’o'worms. #
• I just blew my occasional allowance for luxuriousness. It’s a Levenger Circa Zip Folio, size compact, in eggplant. Yay! Can’t wait for UPS. #
• F’book says (with a broken-heart icon) that a friend went from being "in a relationship" to "single". Am I to post condolences on his wall? #
• How To Add Wordpress 2.3 Tags To Your Current Theme
• mod_rewrite Cheat Sheet
• Goodbye (to the Chicago Reader production staff)

This is a great book on productivity, if you like that sort of thing.  Ironically, the frickin’ thing took me at least a month to read, and another month or two to blog about.  But to give myself a little credit, I did use that time well — I read the book, heard the audiobook version, and heard the audiobook of the sequel Ready For Anything.  Am I actually getting more done though?  Eh.  Maybe… I am getting a lot better at writing things down at any rate, in a quest to achieve that elusive "mind like water".  And it’s cleared away any guilt over certain fetishes I’ve had for years, like my infatuation with office supplies, and my love of BAGS of all shapes and sizes.  It’s also gotten me into various GTD-related blogs like the excellent 43 Folders and Lifehacker.  That can’t hurt.  But I’m still looking for the perfect organizational method for all my lists and notes.  Should I use a Circa system?  Stick with Palm Desktop and sync it up with my Treo, or find yet another software solution?  Or go the other direction and keep a Hipster PDA and/or a DIY Planner?  Bigass text file?  Argh.  It’s all so much fun, just pure pornography for a gal like me, a compulsive system-tweaker who’d much rather play around with paper and software than actually do anything in Real Life, y’know.  Seems like a lot of us GTD converts are prone to that.

I thought tonight (=last night) was gonna end up suckin’ a llama’s dick — I was all ready to be bummed and stressed out ‘cuz it’s the night before I start recording and all.  Poor, poor Edith!!  It’s not the recording so much, it’s that the skating thing didn’t work out and I got a little disappointed about that.  (Because I’m stressed about the recording and I needed a scapegoat for that, so Not Going Skating was the most obvious choice.) But I got back together with Eric again anyway, he broke out some champagne, took me to his rooftop, got me all tipsy and made sure I had a really fun, special night after all.  What a great pal he is!!  Yay.

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I wish I could come up with a better way to get my thoughts up here, it’s so much of a chore.  It needs to be more like a little notepad where I can jot a bunch of things down real quick instead of creating these humongous catching-up posts where I’m trying to summarize a whole week or two.  Bitch bitch bitch!!

Speaking of notepads, have you heard about the latest craze?  The low-tech hipster PDA, just a bunch of index cards held together with a binder clip.  I love that, it really appeals to my love of list-making and my fetish for office supplies.  It also leaves me lusting over fancier things like a Levenger pocket briefcase and a little Moleskine notebook for writing down my song-snippets.  I love using my Treo for contact management — I have so many of those it really is a space-saver, but for note-taking, the Treo doesn’t really work too well for me.  I like to have notes and to-do lists right in front of my face, not hidden away in a program on my phone that I might never open for weeks!

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